Juno

I purchased Juno in the cheap bin at Wal-Mart awhile back, and a few nights ago I finally got around to watching it.  ****Spoiler Alert**** I may discuss specifics.  I popped it in the PS3, not a hundred percent sure what the premise of the movie was.  Basically a 16 year old (Juno) gets pregnant, decides to have an abortion, decides not to have an abortion, tells her parents, chooses an adoptive couple, gets close to the adopting father who seems cool but turns out to be yucky, the couple splits up, and the 16 year old places her child for adoption with the original (now single) adoptive mom.  There were so many moments in this movie that I really wanted to yell at the TV.  Juno was very blasé about the pregnancy, the prospective adoptive father was very inappropriate, the parents were unrealistic, and the birth father was pathetic.  The characters were very exaggerated.  Now that I've complained about the show for awhile, I have to admit that I sort of liked it at a whole.  It does seem to imply that all situations are not the same and all people will not have the same attitudes in a given situation.  Most of the articles or portrayal of birth mothers that I've read or seen show a messed up mother, who would like to keep the child, but for whatever reason cannot.  They place the infant or child up for adoption, but attempt to negotiate and openness agreement. It made me sit down and think - some of these mothers/fathers actually do not want, nor have any feelings for the child they gave birth to or fathered.  What will the birth families to our children be like? 
The tag line taken from IMDB for Juno says:
Faced with an unplanned pregnancy, an offbeat young woman makes an unusual decision regarding her unborn child.
I disagree. Placing a child for adoption with a fit mother, whether she is single or not, is not an unusual decision, but it is a smart one.  The character Juno adamantly refused an openness agreement though, which in this date in society is an unusual choice, or so the literature that the MCFD and adoption websites portray say.

The movie made me cry, and made me mad.  To certain people I would recommend it, not as a much loved show, but as a show to make you think.